Use-after-free in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-46113
Published: May 29, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU133085
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-46113
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free in KVM shadow paging when handling guest page table changes between VM entries. A local user can modify guest page tables to create a stale reverse-mapping entry and trigger a stale rmap walk to cause a denial of service.
This can be triggered during operations such as dirty logging or MMU notifier invalidations.
How to mitigate CVE-2026-46113
Install security update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06c19c967b845b63172601fe459667d973b7e6b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cb2af2ea66ad8ff195c156ea690f11216285bdf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14d1e55dfd2cf4711bff164a6aaaddb783552134
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/488e386484ec8c0e558be6e156edf34ed9f4d5c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/738ec97b1855df6c08fe2369f798fa0b972e556b